Nail-pick-up device.



PATENTED' MAR. 24, 1908;

E. LAHL.

NAIL PICK-UP DEVICE.

APPLIGATIOH run!) an 13, 1901.

EDWARD LAH-L,,0 F SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

Nani-Promo? DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 13, 1907. Serial No. 373,462.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EDWARD LAHL, a citizen of the United States, residin at San Francisco, in the county of San rancisco and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful Nail-Pick-Up Device, of which the following is a specification.

The object of m invention is to provide a device to be used in the nature of an attachment to a hammer, hatchet or similar instrument for the .purpose of pickinglup nails so that the operator may grasp a and full of them, all arranged with the heads uppermost, to thereby save the operator the time and annoyance required in selecting nails from a package containing them and turning the heads in the direction required for quick and effective use.

A further object is to provide a device of this kind that may be uickly and easily attached to and detache from the instrument with which it is connected.

' end of the-handle.

"connection wit A further object is to provide a device of this kind that may be quickly and easily adjusted'by the o erator to work effectively in nails of difierent sizes and sha es.

l\ y invention consists in certain detail in the construction arrangement and combination ofthe various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained as hereinafter more full set forth, pointed out in my claims, and-i1 ustrated in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figures 1, 2, 3, 8: l illustrate, in erspective, the screw for connecting the picking up device to a handle, the body of the pick up device, the plate to be permanently connected to an implement handle and the implement handle having an opening in it to receive the screw.- Fig. 5 s ows a perspective view of a modification attached to a part of an implement handle with a series of detachable tines in position therein.

Referrin to the accompanying drawings I have use the reference numeral 10 to indicate the handle of a hammer-or other implement having formed therein an opening 11. In order to provide for connecting the nail pick up device with this handle I provide a plate 12 of the same shape in outline as the This plate is provided with openings 13 to receive screws for permanently attaching the plate to the handle I and it is also provided with a central screw the opening 11 0 he handle. w

The body of the pick-up device is cated by the numeral 15, and is provided Patented March 24, 1908.

threaded opening 14, to stand in line with' It is also provided witha central opening 17 inline with the opening 14. Atone side of the body portion 15 I have formed a number of tines=18 with 1 v.

signed to be placed through the opening 17 and seated in the screw threaded o ening 14,

whereby the late 15 may be etachably connected wit the plate 12. The flange y being fitted to plate 12 which is preferab oval in outline, provides for preventing a rotary movement of the body portion 15 relative to the implement handle. In the modified form shown in Fig. 6, I have shown-the body portion of the pick up device which is indicated by the numeral 21, said body portion having at one side a right angled plate 22 having two series of rectangular openlngs 23, the openings of one series being closer together than those on the other. These 0 enings are designed to receive tines, each of which comprises a body portion 25,'a flat head 26 and a rectangular shoulder 2' designed to fit into the rectangular opening 23,'

pivoted to the art 22 is a retaining late 28 laving a notc1 29 therein designer to receive a screw 30 by which the plates 22 and 28 may be clamped together.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 5, I

have shown cross head 31 having at one side a screw threaded extension 32 and at another side a series of tines 33.

In practical use and assuming the pick up device to be connected with a hammer handle or the like, the operator grasps the hammer handle and inserts the tines of the pick up device into a package or rece tacle containing the quantity of nails. e uses the pick up device in the nature of a rake and thus chuses the tines thereof to engage the nails and those nails that are engaged with the heads in one direction will be retained by the tines and those that are en aged with the heads in the other direction will slip through the tines, so that after one or two movemen ts of cthe pickup device through the "nails,- all of the $533 088 between the tines will 'pick -u device for-use in connection with either arge or small nails, by simply removing he tines from'the row .of openings in I which they arepassed and placed then placingthem 1n the other row of openings, then the retaining plate 28 maybe returned to position to hold the'heads of the tines firmly in l fiaving thus described my invention, what 26 ent of the United States, therefore is,

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 1 A nail pickup device comprising a body'portion having a flan 0 designed to receive the end of a tool handi, and having an opening therein to receive a screw for connecting said body ortion with the tool handle, and a series 0? of said body portion, and having spaces between them. r

2. A nail pick up device, comprising a body (portion having an extension thereon forme with two rows of openings the openings in onerow being spaced apart further than those in the other row, a series of tines placed in one of said rows of openings and capable of bein removed and replaced in the other row 0' openings and a bin ed retaining'plate designed to securely ho (1 said tines in osition.

Des oines,Iowa,A ril27,1907.

EDWARD LAHL. Witnesses: 1

THOMAS CECIL, FANNIE CnoIL.

tines fixed to one edge I 

